Between “The 40-Year-Old Version,” “Clockers” and “Cool as Ice,” the cinema has offerings for film and music buffs of all kinds in 'Been Here For Years: Hip-Hop at 50.' Critic Sean Burns says “New Jack City” is one of the series' best.
” might not have made many bids for originality in the story department, but all four of these films pulsate with street-level views of American life unseen in suburban multiplexes before the music of the cities started a pop culture revolution. Hip-hop helped reinvent the cops and robbers movie for the era of gangbangers and crack cocaine.
There’s not as much hip-hop in the movie as one might expect, with Lee giving most of the soundtrack over to Terence Blanchard’s plaintive trumpet score The filmmaker’s seething contempt for gangster archetypes radiates from the screen — which he’s packed with cartoonish parodies of malt liquor commercials, drive-by shooter video games and gaggles of children mimicking the macho mannerisms of their big brothers on the benches, to sometimes fatal ends.
Personally, I find “Belly” a pretty tough sit. Not for any moral reasons, but because the story is so difficult to follow and the acting is atrocious. Still, these rococo visuals are something to see, with Sayeed using lenses so wide they make car interiors look like stadiums and a gonzo opening heist at New York City’s notorious nightclub Tunnel that reportedly required half the movie’s budget.
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